Appeal No. 1997-4353
Application No. 08/390,102
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1 through 5 and 8 through 11, all of the claims
remaining in the application.
The invention is directed to a disposable, sanitary cover
for telephone handsets.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as
follows:
1. A telephone handset protector for the normal user
contact areas of the handle, the mouth piece and ear piece of
the telephone handset comprising:
a flat unitary sheet of sound permeable material with:
a) a central portion extending laterally
sufficiently wide to substantially encircle the handle of a
telephone handset;
b) a mouth piece portion sufficient in size to
cover the face of the mouthpiece of a telephone;
c) an earpiece portion sufficient in size to cover
the face of the earpiece of the telephone handset; and
d) said mouthpiece and earpiece face covering
portions each connected to said central portion by respective
connecting portions of said sheet of sufficient length to
allow said mouthpiece face covering and earpiece face covering
portions to normally extend from the rear of a telephone
handset and to fall in place over the respective mouthpiece
and earpiece faces of the telephone handset;
e) said connecting portions to said mouthpiece face
covering portion and said earpiece face covering portion each
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